It seems that I remember hearing something of this but little more
than you have mentioned here. I would be interested in finding out
more. Being primarily a harpbuilder, I know most of the harp repair
people likely to have been at this convention. (If it was the
convention in St. Louis, I was there at the time.) If your wife
remembers the repairman's name or anything else that might help
identify him, I can look him up and see what he knows and post it to
this list.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Another Era Lutherie
www.anotherera.com
--- On Wed, 12/8/10, theoj89...@aol.com <theoj89...@aol.com> wrote:
From: theoj89...@aol.com <theoj89...@aol.com>
Subject: [LUTE] New Savarez harp strings?
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:24 AM
I was recently at a harp convention (wife is a harpist), and a harp
repairman told me about a new advance in strings from Savarez,
that they have produced a nylon string (NOT carbon fibre, nor other
synthetic) that has fibres of some sort imbedded within,
The fibres apparently lend both strength and warmth, to sound and feel
more like gut.
I checked the Savarez website but the site has scant information (at
least in the english site).
Does anyone know more about these strings, or is this just rumor/bad
information?
cheers, trj
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